Sustainable digital transformation of the agricultural value chainSustainable digital transformation...
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Sustainable digital transformation of theagricultural value chain
Farming 4.0 - The necessity of change
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Milica TrajkovićHead of Centre for Innovation and Business DevelopmentBioSense Institute
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Farm Tech Funding
Breakdown 2019
$4.7 bn Invested+6,8% Investment growth
940 Unique investors
$205m The biggest deal
Rob Leclerc,
chief executive of AgFunder
„When it comes to AgTech, farmers have an information arbitrage advantage… they can play around with different technologies and can quickly separate the wheat from the chaff.”
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How do farmers feel about that?
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IoF2020The project Internet of Food & Farm 2020 (IoF2020) explores the potential of
IoT-technologies for the European food and farming industry
The goal is ambitious: to make precision farming a reality and to take a vital step
towards a more sustainable food value chain
H2020 IoF2020
project
120 + partners 4 years (January
2017) 22 countries €35 m budget (€30
million co-funded under EU H2020 programme)
MEAT
ARABLE
VEGETABLES
FRUITS
DAIRY
33 Use Cases across 5 Trials
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IoF2020 Trials & use casesA MULTI-ACTOR APPROACH
IoF2020 approach
Researchers
Infrastructure providers
IoT integrators
End-users
SMART CONTROL
SMART SENSING
& MONITORING
SMART ANALYSIS
& PLANNING
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IoF2020 Trials & use casesLean multi-actor approach
IoF2020 approach
MVP1Initial
Deployment MVP2First
Release
DEMOLarge scale
MVP3Second
Release
TECNOLOGYIMPROVEMENTS
Fine tuning
ECOSYSTEMEND USER FEEDBACK
Involvement & co-creation
BUSINESSKPIs EVALUATION
Measurement & monitoring&
Minimum Viable Product:
a product with just enough
features to gather validated
learning about the product
and its continued development
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IoF2020 User Acceptance
Testing
LITERATURE REVIEW
QUALITATIVE DATA ANALYSIS(INTERVIEW DATA)
QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS(QUESTIONNAIRE DATA)
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IoF2020 Trials & use casesUser Acceptance Testing - framework
IoF2020 UAT
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Farmer’s objective: to make variable rate maps in a more efficient and easier way compared to doing it manually.
“It's a very easy to use software that is doing what it's supposed to do.”
“The application is just the tool to automate the process that can also be done manually. It's
not rocket science. It's just making things easier.”
… The solution is not interoperable with other (existing)
systems, and is perceived as extra operation
“...the only thing that you need to take care of, is that the
application needs data. And if the data is not there, then you
can't use the solution ... One point that a lot of other users don't
have - so that also could be a bit difficult.”
Defining specific field management zones by developing and linking sensing and actuating devices with external data, mainly in potato.
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Farmer’s objective: to use the heat detection of the solution to speed up the production period to detect animal health issues in an earlier stage than the physical systems do to optimize the calving period using the calving alerts of the solution.New objective: selling the animals with the bolus and health history can increase the economic value of the animal.
“If the system is absolutely reliable and the safety feeling for his farm comes into play. This also provides
value and better work-life balance and financial value.”
“The only issue we have to solve is the
water intake alert. We are working on it to
refine and be able to send alerts only if the
cow doesn’t drink at all for days, and not
only for a few hours.”
The system is made up of a small rumen bolus, monitoring various physiological data (temperature, rumen and body activity, pH level), and a cloud-based server application to provide accurate information for daily operations.
DAIRY
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Farmer’s objective: to automate and optimize the irrigation and gain a better understanding of the watering needs of the olive chart. The other objective is to use the meteorological data for disease prediction.
“In cases of an adequate farm size and watering I think we should go towards this, it’s a pity to not do it. You
can have your money back, your investment in a year. I mean just to save the diesel back and forth.”
“Farmers are really cautious because advertisements of technologies promise good results, but this is not
always what the farmers experience after implementation of these technologies.”
Realizing automated field control, product segmentation, processing and commercialisation of olives and olive oil.
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Farmer’s objective: to increase the knowledge about what was happening on the farm by using the location of the animals and detect problems at an early stage.
“Looking for the animal, is possible with your phone. In the night and in the mornings if you are abroad if you are
travelling or wherever you can control, it's not the same than being of course looking the animals that you can control
where the animals are and improve your work. From everywhere. You don't have to be in the land.”
“Putting all the neck laces on the neck of the cows is difficult if
you don't have the structure in your farm. We are lucky
because well, we have put money in the farm and we have very
good shoots and restrainer to hold the animal properly.”
Creation of shared value for the beef supply chain from IoT and blockchain to increase production efficiency and product quality.
“The first time when we were offered to try the neck laces we
were a little hesitant, we didn't want to try them because we knew
that in the other case they hadn't worked very well.”
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Instead of conclusion ….
1Farmer-convenient
2Usefulness + easeof use = adoption
3Low-cost technology?Replicability_?
4Age
5Mentality Knowledge transfer
6Facilitating issues
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Instead of conclusion ….
#EUGREENDEAL
#HORIZONEUROPE
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THANK
YOUMilica Trajković[email protected]